Wireless Networks (WiNe) Research Group

Announcements

• March 17, 2026, Yifan's submission to IEEE SECON entitled, "Q-RISE: Entanglement Routing Optimization in LEO Satellite Networks" has been accepted for presentation as a poster. Well done!!!
• March 10, 2026, our jointly co-authored paper on "Matching Game Method for Computation Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing" has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• First successes of 2026 - Congratulations to both Duncan and Janean!!! Official confirmation of Duncan's PhD degree and Janean's successful defence of her PhD thesis. Well done!!!

Presentations by group members

• CISIS2025 Keynote - Machine Learning in Network Anomaly Detection.pdf
• ICETC2024 Keynote - Quantum Internet
• Blockchains after Bitcoin

Professor Winston Seah has been awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship in Engineering Sciences and Technology for research titled ‘Quantum Networking Algorithms and Protocols’, 2023~2024.

2024 Graduation Ceremony -- Congratulations Atefeh on her "Choice With No Regret"

2021 Graduation Ceremony -- Congratulations Muru

Emerging Innovator Muru at the KiwiNet Investment Committee August 2021 - Emerging innovator presentation, held in the Parliament.

Our Emerging Innovators - Muru (centre) and Duncan (right) with Paul (Wellington UniVentures Commercialisation Manager)

Recent Achievements

• Yifan Gao, Alvin Valera and Winston KG Seah, Q-RISE: Entanglement Routing Optimization in LEO Satellite Networks, accepted as a poster by the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), Jun 3-5, 2026, Pisa, Italy.

International Collaboration Success

Journals

• Zhihui Chen, Alvin Valera, Wuyungerile Li and Winston KG Seah, Matching Game Method for Computation Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 18 March 2026, Early Access.

• Wuyungerile Li, Jie Liu, Ping Li, Kaifen Liu and Winston KG Seah, A Survey of Association Rule Mining: Practice-Oriented Algorithm Selection and Lightweight Benchmarks, accepted by Data Intelligence, 9 December 2025.

• Jia Hao, Lei Wang, Murugaraj Odiathevar, Winston KG Seah, Gang Xu, Baoqi Huang and Yongqiang Gao, Prune-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Offloading Algorithm for Mobile Edge Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Volume 12, 15 October 2025.

• Feng Zhang, Chenhao Luo, Winston KG Seah, Gang Xu and Zhao Kailiang, Temporal Graph Attention and Contrastive Learning Model for Link Prediction in Dynamic Networks, Computer Networks, Volume 271, October 2025, 111596.

• Guanghui Wei, Feng Zhang, Gang Xu, Winston KG Seah, Zixuan Yuan, Yongqiang Shi, "Social relationships and location information based routing algorithm in opportunistic networks," Internet of Things, Volume 29, 2025.

Conferences / Symposiums / Workshops

• Shuqi Han, Winston KG Seah, Gang Xu, Xiaodong Xu and Feng Zhang, TTC-Mamba: Continuous-Time Link Prediction in Opportunistic Networks via Spatio-Temporal Synergistic State Space Models, accepted as a poster by the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), Jun 3-5, 2026, Pisa, Italy.

• Xiaojing Liu, Winston KG Seah and Gang Xu, Dynamic Network Link Prediction Based on Characterization of Temporal Attributes, accepted as an extended abstract by the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 25-29, 2026, Paphos, Cyprus.

• Jiale Zhan, Winston KG Seah, Gang Xu and Xiaodong Xu, CD-MTO: A Joint Optimization Framework for Multi-Hop Task Offloading and Energy-Aware Computing in Mobile Edge Networks, accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 3-8, 2026, Barcelona, Spain.

• Nisuna Bao, Wanying Zhang, Wuyungerile Li and Winston KG Seah, A Network Coding Based Energy-efficient Opportunistic Routing Protocol in Low-Power and Lossy Networks, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), Oct 30 - Nov 02, 2025, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

• Ran Huang, Tao Zhang, Hui Yu, Ao Zhang, Siyuan Fan, Jyoti Sahni and Winston KG Seah, SMAR: Short-Flow Multi-Path Adaptive Routing for Heterogeneous RDMA Workloads, Proceedings of the ICA3PP Workshop on AI for Networks and Networking for AI (ICA3PP-ANNA), Oct 30 - Nov 02, 2025, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

• Qi Sun, Winston KG Seah and Gang Xu, EQ-STAR: Energy-Efficient high-Quality Routing based on Spatio-Temporal Attention and Reinforcement Learning, Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), July 2–4, 2025, Gold Coast, Australia.

• Mengfan Yuan, Bing Jia, Baoqi Huang and Winston KG Seah, WTBFlaw-YOLO: YOLO Network for Surface Defect Detection of Wind Turbine Blades, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), June 30 to July 5, 2025, Rome, Italy.

International Awards

• Victoria University of Wellington (NZ) - winner of the ISIF Asia Award for Outstanding Research in Digital Development. The award was for research in "Realtime detection and visualization of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) anomalies using machine learning" and was accepted by Professor Winston Seah (far right) at the APNIC 58 conference in Wellington on 4 September 2024.

• ISIF Asia Grant 2023, Realtime detection and visualization of BGP anomalies using machine learning. USD$85,000. VUW (Lead): Professor Winston Seah, Dr Alvin Valera and Dr Jyoti Sahni; IMU (China): Associate Professor Wuyungerile Li; PSU (Thailand): Associate Professor Sinchai Kamolphiwong and Dr Chidchanok Choksuchat.

Best Paper Award

PhD student, Hang Yu's paper on "Pulse Arrival Scheduling for Nanonetworks Under Limited IoT Access Bandwidth" has won the Best Paper Award in the 42nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) held in Singapore 9-12 Oct 2017. We have four papers, including the Best Paper, in this conference which is ranked A by CORE/ERA since 2008. A recording of the presentation can be found here.

Scholarships

VUW PhD scholarships

Three times a year, Victoria University of Wellington accepts applications for admission into our PhD programme with Wellington Doctoral Scholarships as well as other externally funded scholarships. The application process is managed by our Faculty of Graduate Research and details are available from their website. Applicants who are interested to do research in 5G/6G networks, quantum internet, quantum networking, IoT, wireless networks and future internet technologies, are strongly encouraged to contact Prof Winston Seah or any of our Research Team staff members.

WiNe Research Areas

WiNe focuses on networking technology that enables the plethora of diverse devices in the Internet to communicate effectively and reliably over wireless communication, including both the wireless access as well as relevant core network technologies to achieve these goals. We study advanced networking protocols and architectures for the fast evolving Internet and 5G/6G mobile telecommunication systems.

• Wireless Networking Algorithms and Protocols: The research addresses challenging issues with environmentally friendly energy efficient algorithms and protocols for different forms of wireless networks operating in day-to-day as well as extreme conditions. We are the first to propose packet attribute aware routing to fully utilize scarce network resources, viz. routing over best links is not necessarily better for wireless networks. Of particular interest are the MAC, RLC and random access protocols for 5G/6G networks to support the massive number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and the use of network function virtualization (NFV) for resource management and optimization.
• End-to-end Wired/Wireless Network Inter-connectivity: The focus of our research is on algorithms/protocols/techniques for interconnecting wireless access networks to and across the wired backbone. This research will consider the relevant core network technologies needed to provide end-to-end connectivity, focusing on latest technology trends, like Software Defined Networking (SDN), NFV, Mobile Edge Computing, Distributed Mobility Management, as well as the core network aspect of 5G/6G networks which has evolved towards an IP-centric network.
• Wireless Network Anomaly Detection: The focus of our current research is on novel ways of detecting anomalous behaviour in wireless networks, that goes beyond security. We explore new ways of identifying and detecting anomalous network traffic that may be the precursors to attacks and other malicious activities, utilizing machine learning and deep learning. A key research focus is on establishing trust in the IoT and building a secure trust framework.

Externally Funded Research Projects

Current Ongoing

• ISIF Asia Grant 2023, Realtime detection and visualization of BGP anomalies using machine learning. February 1, 2024 - July 31, 2025. VUW (Lead): Professor Winston Seah, Dr Alvin Valera and Dr Jyoti Sahni; IMU (China): Associate Professor Wuyungerile Li; PSU (Thailand): Associate Professor Sinchai Kamolphiwong and Dr Chidchanok Choksuchat. USD$85,000.

Completed

• SfTI BioSecurity Technology, "Finding the last predators," CALLAGHAN INNOVATION, October 1, 2021 - June 30, 2024, Co-PI Winston Seah, with team members, Alvin Valera, Jyoti Sahni and Yau Hee Kho, NZ$395,306.56.

• SfTI Seed Project, "Enabling Seamless communication in UAV swarms," CALLAGHAN INNOVATION, March 1, 2022 - February 28, 2024, PI Jyoti Sahni, NZ$ $199,532.74.

• Conference Attendance Funding, Internet NZ, $5,000 each.
  • Duncan Cameron - APNIC 56, September 7-14, 2023, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Winston Seah - IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 4-8, 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Establishing Trust in Internet of Things using Physically Unclonable Functions and Blockchains, Royal Society of New Zealand, July 2018 Catalyst Seeding: General, Ref. No. 18-VUW-043-CSG, February 1, 2019 – January 31, 2021, NZ$79,750. Collaborating partners are National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (Malaysia).

• Software-Defined Green Internet of Things, Huawei NZ, July 1, 2016 - 30 June, 2019, NZ$330,000.

• Scalable Traffic Classification in Internet of Things (IoT) for Network Anomaly Detection, ISIF Asia, Internet Operations Research Grants, January 1 - December 31, 2018, US$34,000.

Research Team

Find out more about our Research Team and how to work with them:

Research Publications

Members of the group have produced a number of publications over the years: